swale
/sweɪl
/noun chiefly North American & dialect
A low or hollow place, especially a marshy depression between ridges.At the locality in question, cast-dipping beds of the Middle Permian Park City and Phosphoria Formations form a succession of low ridges and intervening swales....
- Landscaping involved land leveling by lowering ridges and filling swales and was undertaken in connection with the construction of plazas and other special-use areas within most Mississippian centers.
- The orchids occurred in wet marshy swales and in open margins of wet shrubby thickets and ponds.
Origin
Early 16th century: of unknown origin; probably taken to America from eastern England, where it is still in use.
Rhymes
- proenkephalin
- proenzyme
- proepimeron
- proepisternum
- proerythroblast
- proestrous
- proestrum
- pro-estrus
- pro et con
- pro et contra
- pro-ethnic
- proette
- pro-European
- prof
- Prof.
- pro-family
- profanable
- take a dive
- take advantage of
- take advantage of (or take advice etc.)
- take a fancy to
- take a flyer
- take after
- take against
- take a hammering